shoehorn
/ˈʃuːhɔːn/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈʃuːhɔːn/
shoehorn
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Aw vowel
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shoe - horn -> shoehorn
Myanmar meaning
Full entry
shoehorn /'ʃu:hↄ:n/ n
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- ‘We also supply intimate items - shoehorns, toothbrushes and toothpaste - and our laundry bags are linen, not plastic.’
- ‘My laptop, my picture ID and credit cards, a shoehorn, a small flashlight, and a good book to read - are just a few other must-haves.’
- ‘Whoever wins is going to need a really big shoehorn.’
- ‘The sparkling clean room has four lockers, each with wooden coat hangers, a lower compartment for shoes, with complimentary shoehorn, and an upper compartment for personal effects.’
- ‘Aids include shoehorns with an extension handle, devices that help you pull up hosiery, shoes you close with Velcro rather than with shoelaces, and tools that grip buttons and zippers.’
- ‘Use a long-handled shoehorn if you have trouble putting on shoes.’
- ‘The firm buys cow horn, which is a by-product of the meat industry, and uses it to produce items such as spoons, walking sticks and shoehorns.’
- ‘Kisembo is wearing green rubber boots and has brought, as a symbol of his power, a shoehorn adorned with a lion's head.’
- ‘Finding a comfortable spot for a nap in a passenger terminal is like trying to find a Bedouin shoehorn salesman.’
- ‘The average airline ticket in the U.S. should come with a shoehorn to help wedge you into the seat.’
- ‘If you look at the bag with a transmitted x-ray, you can make out various things - a radio, shaving cream.’
- ‘After much struggling and battling with the shoehorn he finally got the shoes on.’
- ‘And when buses finally arrive, they are often packed so full of people that we wish our Metropasses had come equipped with a shoehorn.’
- ‘It's illogical, he says: feet splay out towards the ends, yet women's fashion demands that toes be shoehorned into a point.’
- ‘They are allowed a few bolstering bits of flimsy cloth to try to retain an air of modesty despite being shoehorned into bras that are less about pushing up, and more about throwing out.’
- ‘These snippets of genetic material shoehorn themselves into a variety of spots in a host's DNA.’
- ‘But the sport also cannot be shoehorned into an ideal mold of globalization, even as globalization cannot quite set its foot straight in world soccer.’
- ‘A traditional marriage will be most advantageous for the blushing groom, but it's not the oppressive males who are forcing us up that aisle, or shoehorning us into white meringues.’
- ‘A grand piano is shoehorned into the rectangular room, bay-fronted on to a hill of semi-detached houses on the south Essex coast.’
- ‘Certainly there is a great variety of experiences, skills and knowledge for students to gain from work terms that could not be shoehorned into specific courses.’
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